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Secret Origins Annual Vol. 2 2

SECRET ORIGINS ANNUAL VOL. 2 #2

Cover Date: 1988
Cover Price: $2.00

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Carmine Infantino (signed)
Inks: Murphy Anderson (signed)


Story: "The Unforgiving Minute" (26 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWilliam Messner-Loebs
PencilsMike Collins
InksFrank McLaughlin, Don Simpson
LetteringAlbert De Guzman
ColorsCarl Gafford
EditingMark Waid

Feature Character(s):

Wally West (also in flashbacks to Flash Vol. 1 #110 and Flash Vol. 2 #63, and after DC Special Series #11)

Supporting Character(s):

Dr. Owen Slade (Wally's therapist)

Guest Appearance(s):

Flash II (in flashback following DC Special Series #11 and preceding Justice League of America #154; see Comments)

Comment(s):

Wally says that he's been seeing Dr. Slade "for months".
This story erroneously shows Wally's parents being aware of his dual identity before his revelation prior to high school graduation.
This story also pushes Wally's first retirement from heroics into the time of Barry Allen's trial for murder.
This story also contains Rudyard Kippling's IF.


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Second Story: "Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt" (34 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Loren Fleming
PencilsCarmine Infantino
InksMurphy Anderson
LetteringGaspar Saladino
ColorsTom Ziuko
EditingMark Waid

Feature Character(s):

Flash II (in flashback to his youth age seven, during his dating with Iris Allen, his first day at Central City Police Headquarters, four years after his first appearance and during Crisis on Infinite Earths #8; also becomes the thunderbolt that causes his powers)

Supporting Character(s):

Iris West (in brief flashback to prior to Showcase #4)

Villain(s):

L.D.L (first appearance; a terrorist group)
The Rogues
Top (in flashback to four years after Flash's first appearance)
Captain Boomerang (in flashback to four years after Flash's first appearance)
Pied Piper II (in flashback to four years after Flash's first appearance)
Heat Wave (in flashback to four years after Flash's first appearance)
Captain Cold (in flashback to four years after Flash's first appearance)
Mirror Master I (in flashback to four years after Flash's first appearance)
Weather Wizard (in flashback to four years after Flash's first appearance)
Anti-Monitor (during Crisis on Infinite Earths #8)

Other Character(s):

Detective Russo (first appearance; in flashback; a detective who was also trying to date Iris West)

Location(s):

Central City

Comment(s):

Barry Allen gives his age as 24 at the beginning of his career.


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